UPDATE: No Hazmat in Agawam, Mass.

Thanks a lot to Scherado for following this and alerting me to the resolution. Third item:

(Agawam) -- Federal officials say materials thought to be suspicious in an Agawam home pose no threat. But the officials and Agawam police still arrested Michael Crooker at his home for federal firearms charge. When they were searching his house, authorities say they found some suspicious materials that were later determined not to be a threat. They would be elaborate. A-T-F spokesman Jim McNally says Crooker is a convicted felon.

Sorry to worry everyone. But that was what my source told me.

[Originally: Explosives-Making Materials, Possible Chemical Weapons Discovered at Massachusetts Apartment]

Michelle Malkin blogs the discovery of explosives and possibly chemicals in an Agawam, Mass., apartment by DHS officers.

A source in federal law-enforcement tells me that federal agents specializing in Hazmat disposal have been summoned to the site. The fear is -- only a fear -- that it's possibly Sarin.

Treat that last bit as chatter among law-enforcement types, but among the LEO's concerned.

posted by Ace at 06:59 PM

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